Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic resource allocation based upon network flow control
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Application No.: US15848840Application Date: 2017-12-20
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Publication No.: US10523573B2Publication Date: 2019-12-31
- Inventor: Craig Fulmer Everhart , Vishwajith Shivappa
- Applicant: NetApp Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cooper Legal Group, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; H04L12/825 ; H04L29/08 ; G06F9/50

Abstract:
One or more techniques and/or devices are provided for dynamic resource allocation based upon network flow control. For example, a first counter, corresponding to a count of communication availability signals provided by a network interface to a storage process, may be maintained. A second counter, corresponding to a count of communication unavailability signals provided by the network interface to the storage process, may be maintained. Responsive to the first counter exceeding a resource allocation threshold, additional resources may be dynamically allocated to the storage process during operation of the storage process. Responsive to the second counter exceeding a resource deallocation threshold, resources may be dynamically deallocated from the storage process during operation of the storage process. In this way, resources allocation for the storage process may be dynamically adjusted based upon real-time network flow control information indicative of whether the storage process is efficiently utilizing network communication channel availability.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180159783A1 DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION BASED UPON NETWORK FLOW CONTROL Public/Granted day:2018-06-07
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